Insulin Quotations

Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.

With the glucometer, I always know how much blood sugar I've got, so I can adjust my insulin or the food I eat.

The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.

I'm pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it has an effect on me. But hey, I'm putting on the insulin tire like everybody else, but that's just a function of getting older.

I need insulin to stay alive. It's just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease has only one way to treat their condition.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease had only one way to treat their condition. It is our hope that the availability of inhaled insulin will offer patients more options to better control their blood sugars.

Many people who could benefit from insulin are fearful of injections, so they delay treatment five years or 10 years, placing them at risk for serious complications.

Since we know S6K1 is linked to obesity and insulin resistance, learning that it can actually be turned on by more than one pathway is important, because it represents a potential target to regulate obesity.

My doctor said you've got two choices: Take insulin or lose weight.

People who are diabetic may be more susceptible to day-to-day fluctuations in air pollution. They may experience a state of greater inflammation-related to insulin resistance-that makes their lungs more receptive to receiving harmful particles.

Our modern, deadline-a-day lifestyle overtaxes our adrenal glands, which end up overproducing cortisol, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to sleep and can put you at risk for a heart attack. Raised cortisol also boosts your insulin levels, which can cause you to pack on the pounds, especially around the midsection.

We were able to significantly reduce weight gain. The insulin resistance was less, and the blood pressure fell.

We want to make sure people understand that this does not equal getting rid of all their insulin shots.

We were talking about Hurricane Katrina. If we were down there and his pump got wet or his insulin was in that 90-degree heat and wasn't any good . . . how sick he'd be.

Diabetes used to affect me a lot. My sugar level was high and I had back cramps. I felt at times as if I would pass out. But the insulin pump has helped me.

Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

The thing that people with diabetes who have to take insulin hate the most are shots. So anything that can replace shots patients are going to be very pleased to have.

Now, I'm down to 162 pounds, and have dropped from taking seven meds a day, down to one med, after blood pressure and cholesterol began dropping dramatically, and my body began producing insulin, thus reversing the insulin resistance and that problem too has been eliminated,

Anything like HIV medications or insulin will get filled even if they (prison staff members) have to get them at a local pharmacy.

It's just painful. You have to carry insulin which needs to be refrigerated. It's not convenient.

It is our hope that the availability of inhaled insulin will offer patients more options to better control their blood sugars.

It may be that suppressing insulin production to some degree could be beneficial in such disorders.

It's not going to be an overnight sensation. My concern is that people will assume they are now free of insulin shots.

I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away from. And so, I don't need to know exactly what I'm going to eat, but I take my insulin probably 20 minutes before I'm going to sit down.

Insulin and amino acids both play a critical role in growth and development,

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.

The dire circumstances are that you've got people who have been without insulin or oral medications for four days now, and they're dying,

An accumulating body of evidence suggests that this translates into health benefits for those who consume cocoa or dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 60% or more. Benefits have been seen in endothelial function, a measure of blood vessel health, blood pressure, insulin levels and serum lipids.

And if you lose weight and lead an active lifestyle in the very early stages of type 2 diabetes, you can reverse and become sensitive to insulin again.